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The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

Francois Fenelon

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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
Catholic Priest
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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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abbé de Fénélon
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades it only makes hypocrites.
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God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.
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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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The smallest things become great when God requires them of us they are small only in themselves they are always great when they are done for God.
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Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.
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O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.
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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
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How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
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True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart it is simple, free, and attractive.
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God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.
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There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.
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It is better to die than to tell a lie
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The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.
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That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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